The game is without much content, has lots of annoying quirks, looks good but not nearly as good as it should have, considering its system requirements. Its system requirements are also probably keeping many potential customers away, because they don't have a PC that can run it at any sort of agreeable performance.

The world looks technically nice, but both the maps and the actual terrain smells strongly of copypasta. One might argue that FF11 had just as much copypasta, but I guess when the graphics are a lot better, copypasta also gets much more obvious. It's like the uncanny valley for landscapes I guess. There are for example sooo many small cave areas that look *exactly* alike in FF14. For me, this is a thing that easily kills my immersion.

Furthermore, while the character models are more detailed (and the catgirls are really hot :3), I can't help but getting the feeling that these races are just bland copies of races that had much more character in FF11. Roegadyns are galkas that look more like humans. Miqote are mithras that look more like humans, and lalafels are tarus that look more like humans. I liked that the races were as different as they were in FF11, especially mithras are much more different from humans than any catgirl you'll see in almost any other media. Elvaans too are pretty different from "generic" elves, both in culture and appearance. Except that they are fairly good rangers.